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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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War, Encounters, Literature

Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

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Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts

Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Lucretius

Stars, Sky

Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “De rerum natur libri sex”

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Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

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Blow, Order, Should Have

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Fear holds dominion over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think Divinities are working there.

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Wise, Men, Thinking

Titus Lucretius Carus (1921). “Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things”

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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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Men, Too Much

Titus Lucretius Carus (1924). “De rerum natura”

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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

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Power, Haste, Levels

Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Lucretius

Pain, Spring, Doe

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.16, Psychology Press

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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

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Time, Names, Degrees

Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

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Struggle, Wind, Sea

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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

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Wind, Sea, Land

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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

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Doubt, Void, Wander

Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17

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And thus thou canst remark that every act
At bottom exists not of itself, nor is
As body is, nor has like name with void;
But rather of sort more fitly to be called
An accident of body, and of place
Wherein all things go on.

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Names, Goes On, Body

Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.109, Lulu.com

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Bodies, again,
Are partly primal germs of things, and partly
Unions deriving from the primal germs.

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Body, Unions, Germs

Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

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Science, Erosion, Rocks

Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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The sum of things there is no power can change,
For naught exists outside, to which can flee
Out of the world matter of any kind,
Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring,
Break in upon the founded world, and change
Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.

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Spring, World, Matter

Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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Nor can those motions that bring death prevail
Forever, nor eternally entomb
The welfare of the world; nor, further, can
Those motions that give birth to things and growth
Keep them forever when created there.

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Giving, Forever, Growth

Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.

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Race, Mind, Body

Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.108, Lulu.com

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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

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Duration

Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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See with what force yon river's crystal stream
Resists the weight of many a massy beam.
To sink the wood the more we vainly toil,
The higher it rebounds, with swift recoil.
Yet that the beam would of itself ascend
No man will rashly venture to contend.
Thus too the flame has weight, though highly rare,
Nor mounts but when compelled by heavier air.

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Science, Men, Rivers

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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

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Sweet, Flower, Earth

Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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Passion, Harm, Intercourse

" A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, (Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII), 1945.

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Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

Lucretius

Air, Fields, Gentle

Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.102, Lulu.com

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I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky,
And the primordial germs of things unfold,
Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies
And fosters all, and whither she resolves
Each in the end when each is overthrown.
This ultimate stock we have devised to name
Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things,
Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

Lucretius

Law, Sky, Names

Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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Born: 99 BC
Died: 55 BC
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